Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-31
A WOOL MARKET.

The GAZETTE urges upon the attentlor
J of the people of Fort Worth the expedi
ency of some effort to make this city 6
wool market. AS market for live stock
at this time Fort Worth has no superior
in Texas, and while we are seeking to en-
large our facilities for the transaction Of
the business in this production and thu:
to extend and perpetuate it, We should
seek TO make of the city great WOO
market also.
Texas is great producer of live stoch
and wool; there is nothing chimerical
about the production of wool, cattle and
horses in the territory Of which Fort
Worth is the natural trade center. Il
Fort Worth cannot make itself great
wool and a great live stock market il
cannot do anything at all. And this city
once provided with the necessary tscili-
ties for handling the trades in question
would soon feel the impulse Of
the aggregation here Of interests
whose potency in developing Texas has
never been questioned. The GAZETTE
in this urges its people 20 nc delusive
scheme. The cattle and the horses and
the sheep are here in abundance, and moi
very much is required to efeCtually cen
ter 10 this city the trade in those products
of the country of which Fort Worth is the
outlet.
With big stock yards to gather the cat
tie and the horses and the sheep
here, and permanently locate in this
city the trade dependent upon the i'm
mense live stock industry Of the state,
supplemented by facilities for handling
wool, it could not be long until those
who wanted to manufacture meats and
wooden goods would seek Fort Worth in
stead of waiting 10 be sought. THE
GAZETTE's local article on this subject
yesterday has met with such favor that
it is here repeated, for the sake of en-
phssizing the good to be done the city by
timely action in this matter "TeXas is
great wool growing state. Hundreds
of thousands of pounds Of wool pass
through Fort Worth every week on the
way to Boston. This wool is shipped full
of dit end wool fat, and the dirt costs
SI.43 per 100 pounds for transportation,
or as much as the wool Itself. When this
wool reaches Boston tits sent to Walpole
where water with the same properties as
our artesian water is found, and there
the wool is secured. Water that will
scour wool is very rare, many states have
no such water In the state of Ohio they
fleece wash wool, but they have no water
to sCour it. There is 70 city in the state
CT Texas where wool can be secured but
the city of Fort Worth, for there IS no
city in Texas that has the artesian water
necessary to do this but Fort Worth.
Wool is worth, including the dirt and
wool fat, l6c, l7c and 18C in Texas,
secured wool Is worth 371C, 40c and 42bC
besides the saving of freight at the rate
of Sl.43 per 100 for the dirt shipped 1900
miles. Last week 8 gentleman who is an
expert IN wool, tried our artesisn water
on wool and finds it to be 8 magnificent
securing water. He has made this
known, and already some Of our citizens
are discussing the establishment Of q
wool-scouring plant. a machine that
will sCOur 1000 pounds Of wool per day
will cost $500, and it is proposed to put
in ten or twelve of these machines and
scour 10, 900 to 1900 pounds daily. Let
this be done and nearly every wool
grower ia Texas viii ship his wool to
Fort Worth, where it can be secured, aud
he will make cents to 1Ot cents per
pound besides what he saves in freight
1t is proposed by the gentleman moving
in the matter to buy land near the river
and bore aTtesian wells, plant their ma
chinery and 60 to work. What is known
as wool lat or lamslne or agnine is val
liable commodity, worth from IS cents TO
SI5O per pound. After the wool is
washed this grease is taken from the wa
ter and saved. The profit arising from
the saving of this wool fat would also go
to the wool grower. If Fort Worth will
establish these securing plants she will
become the greatest wool market south
Of Philadelphia, and that means great
prosperity. The matter should not be
permitted to lag"